Improvement in hooks for fastening garments



UNITED STATES PAENT Frio.

G. A. WATKINS, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

vIMPROVEMENT -IN HOOKS FOR FASTENING' GARMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,783, dated February 24, 1863.

To all whom 'it may concernl Be it known that I, G. A. WArKrNs, of Springfield, in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, have invented a new and `improved hook-fastening for india-rubber blankets and other garments designed for military or army purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accmpanying drawings, making a part ot' this specication, in Which- Figurel is a side View7 of my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same, taken in line w Fig. l Fig. 3, a perspective view of the same; Fig. 4 a side view of a modification ofthe-same; Fig. 5, a transverse section ofthe same, taken in the lineyy, Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicatecorrespending parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in attaching a hook to the blanket or garment by means of an eyelet in the manner herein shown and described. To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a hook, which may he` constructed of brass or other suitable metal, and

of any proper or desirable form. The end of the shanka of the hook is iiattened, and is so ewa-ged or formed as to have a tubular pro j ction, b, projecting at right angles from about the center of the flattened portion, as

shown clearly in Fig. 3. The opening ot' the projection b extends entirely through the shank a, and the shank a, with the tubular projection b, forms an eyelet, as shown in Fig. 3u

When this device is to be attached to a blanket or garment provided with eyelets o, no burr or washer is required, as the eyelet in the garment answers the purpose of a washer,

as shown in Fig. 2, the projection b being passed through the eyelet c. If the garment is not provided with the eyelets c, the projection b is simply passed through a hole in the garment, and a burr or washer, d, as shown in Fig. 3, is employed, over which the end of the projection b is bent or swaged. By this mode of attaching thehook to the blanket orv G. A. WATKINS.

Witnesses: e l

DANIEL ROBERTSON,

M. S. PARTR'IDGE. 

